Famu Guides
Step-by-step guides for every part of Famu — pick one from the list to get started.
Getting started
- Set up your farm
- Confirm your email address
- The confirmation code didn't arrive
- Why Famu keeps asking you to confirm
- What Famu can do
- Choose what your farm keeps
- Set up your pens and houses
- Add someone to the farm
- Add someone who already uses Famu
- Turn on reminders
- Find any page or guide fast
- Ask Famu support for help
- Find older records on a long list
- Start a planting before it is sown
- Start a batch before the chicks arrive
- What Famu warns you about
- Why Famu says you are running low
Every day
- Record the daily round
- Record deaths
- Record feeding and water
- Record eggs collected
- Write a health note
- Log a visitor and the footbath
- Keep a task list
- Put a vet or agro-vet schedule into Famu
- Add a spray or vaccine to a schedule from a photo
- Send a schedule to another farm, or carry it into next season
- Reuse a spray or vaccination programme with a template
- Build a template with work before and after transplanting
- Share a template with other farms, or use theirs
- Record eggs, deaths and spending by WhatsApp
- Set milestones and see if you hit them
- Keep a note of something you learnt
- Find a note again
- Ask the AI what your notes say
- See every milestone on the farm
- Put your milestones on your own Google Calendar
- Let Famu notice a milestone you already recorded
- Reuse a season’s milestones with a template
- What early, late, overdue and missed mean on a milestone
Poultry
- Start a new batch
- See how the birds are doing
- See what a batch made or lost
- Plan and record vaccinations
- Record a treatment
- Record sample weights
- What FCR means
- What mortality rate means
Cattle
- Add an animal to the herd
- Add a photo of an animal
- Record milk
- Record an animal treatment
- See an animal's family tree
- Record breeding
Pigs
Dogs
Crops
- Start a planting
- Record a spray or fertiliser
- Keep an input library
- Record a harvest
- Sell a harvest as you record it
- Sell a picking you recorded earlier
- Manage your crop types
- Log the growth stage when a crop milestone is achieved
Money
- Record a sale
- Sell eggs by the tray
- See who owes you, and who you owe
- Remind a customer what they owe
- Sell on credit, or take part payment
- Add a customer
- Record what you spent
- See what each enterprise costs
- Record a cost for one animal, planting or batch
- Record an expense paid in pieces
- Keep a list of your suppliers
- Organise your expense categories
- Look at a receipt you photographed
- Record something you built or bought to keep
- Group what you built and bought
- Look after a machine you bought
- Record a machine's make, model and fuel
- Note which oil, filters and battery a machine takes
- Keep a machine's manual, photos and how-to videos
- Report a problem with a machine
- Know what water and power are costing you
- Why Famu says a meter is running high
- Keep a cash box
- Count the cash box
- Record money in that is not a sale
- Record a farm visit, lecture or training
- Record a loan or a grant, and its repayments
- Flat rate or reducing balance: what a loan really costs
- Tick off a loan repayment
- See whether the farm is making money
- Give your numbers to an accountant or a bank
- Let a buyer check your record with a QR code
- Stop sharing a record with buyers
- Let someone view one plantation or batch
- Track what is in the store
- Record a feed purchase
- Print on a small receipt printer
- Ask about sales and spending on WhatsApp
- How a spray comes off the store
- Why Famu says the cash box is low
People
- Keep a worker record
- Add a worker's emergency contacts
- Record a payment to a worker
- Keep part of a worker's pay as savings
- Buy something for a worker and take it off their pay
- Give a worker a statement of what they owe for items
- Record food you send to workers
- Print a report for a worker
- How worker payments count in your expenses
- Mark who worked today
- Monthly salary or day rate?
- Pay by the crate, not by the day
- Work out and pay a period's wages
- See what a worker is owed
- Decide who can see what
- Let managers or workers record through their AI
- Let workers use the WhatsApp assistant
- See who uses WhatsApp on your farm, and pause it
Your farm
- Get a written summary of a finished batch or planting
- What the AI can do
- Photograph a receipt instead of typing it
- Photograph a product label
- Bring in records you already keep in a spreadsheet
- Import a whole workbook, or a Google Sheet
- Import straight from Google Sheets
- Why an import sometimes waits
- Ask the assistant
- Ask the assistant about one plantation, batch or animal
- Take a record to your own AI
- Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your farm
- Let your AI record things for you
- Check what your AI changed
- Connect your WhatsApp to Famu
- Ask Famu about your farm on WhatsApp
- Check a plantation or an animal on WhatsApp
- Switch farms on WhatsApp
- Famu is not answering on WhatsApp
- Ask about a sick bird or plant
- See who changed what
- Invite another farmer
- Your privacy and cookie choices
- Delete your account
- Share one tablet between everyone
- Change your farm details
- Pay for Famu